Four-year old BOY gets into MENSA
 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...26/ixhome.html

Boy of four passes test for Mensa

Matthew Harrison is the newest member of Mensa. At the age of four, he is also the youngest.

Matthew, who had a vocabulary of 70 words by his first birthday and is learning Spanish, qualified by passing tests that, under a sliding scale, gave him an equivalent IQ in excess of 148. The average IQ is 100.

The GFY average is (judging by the posters' attitudes) 300 :Graucho :winkwink:

why did you capitalise BOY, shouldnt it have been FOUR year old boy gets into MENSA ?

How would they use a sliding scale, considering that not many 4-yr. olds have taken the test?

So now we have rules for which words we capitalize?

I didn't know they used a sliding scale for children. I scored 142 when I was 15 on an IQ test at my counselor's office.

yes, said so in the holy book i believe.

Yep, and to diverge from it means DEATH :winkwink:

That's not that unusual.

Wherever you live must have ONE HELL of a HeadStart program giving 4 year old kids IQs of over 140. :thumbsup Tax Dollars finally paid off :winkwink:

Mozart, I believe, wrote his first symphony before he was 10 years old. Lots of bright kids out there.:thumbsup

Ehm... there is nothing unusual about his test results. The test results are generally adjusted for age, and your IQ is supposed to be independant of age (unless it is being measured in a study comparing intelligence in different age groups).

The only unusual thing here is that Mensa let the kid join.

LMAO

that's funny

I'd understand if it was about a girl, then he could capitalize the word GIRL :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I still think that it's unusual for a BOY to get into Mensa (boy = under 18)

I thought you needed 150 to get in...

Thats amazing. 70 words before his first birthday. Thats nuts. Ive met kids that cant put a complete sentence together at the age of 5.

:1orglaugh

that is amazing though. i was still breastfed when i was 4 :)

what?

im really not following you on this one :1orglaugh

It begs to be said, but I've met many adults who cannot do that as well. And they're not considered "special" (short bus), either.

That is pretty amazing at that age, however.

I STILL like to get breastfed from large titties :winkwink: :thumbsup

then you're probably not in MENSA :1orglaugh

Most webmasters here can;t either and your suppose to be 18 to be here

the keyword in this sentense is "supposed"


btw, your sentense doesn't look very good man :1orglaugh

There are a few of those in here....

:1orglaugh

I don't see how that's particularly interesting. My IQ as a four year old, as estimated on the Binet scale, was 175. Of course, it normalizes to a true average as you get older.

That's fucked up ... this guy won't be normal when he will be adult .

IQ= mental age/actual age; an IQ of 148 at the age of 4 simply indicates that he has the mental skills of an average 6-year-old.

Mensa's only requirement for membership is an IQ score in the 98th percentile or higher; age, sex, gender, religion, and D&D alignment (lawful good, neutral, chaotic evil) are irrelevent.

I've been to a few meetings; it was a lot of fun.

so now you are trying to tell us that you are a slow learner then? hehe just kidding:Graucho :Graucho